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    How to short stroke a hard drive in Disk Utility i.e. create 2 partitions, 1 unformatted

    Hi, Short stroking a hard drive is creating two partitions and then only using the first one which is on the outer edge of the platter. This allows faster read/write speeds at the expense of storage space. I want to divide my 2TB disk into a 1.5 TB HFS+ partion, and a 500GB unformatted space...
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